When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture of the Rossini's The Thieving Magpie, which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta.
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(1997)
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
1st Vintage International ed.
by 村上春樹
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Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II.
In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. As these searches intersect, Okada encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists: a psychic prostitute; a malevolent yet mediagenic politician; a cheerfully morbid sixteen-year-old-girl; and an aging war veteran who has been permanently changed by the hideous things he witnessed during Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria.
Gripping, prophetic, suffused with comedy and menace, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force equal in scope to the masterpieces of Mishima and Pynchon.
--back cover
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literary fiction, contemporary fantasy, psychological fiction, parapsychology, fate and fatalism, Fiction, Japanese fiction, Man-woman relationships, Marriage, Missing persons, Politics and government, Translations into English, Fiction, psychological, Japan, fiction, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Fiction, political, Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author), Japanese Psychological fiction, Heisei period, New York Times reviewedPeople
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Japan, Tokyo, Manchuria, Ginza, Shinjuku, Shinjuku Gyoen, Akasaka, Setagaya Ward, Ueno Zoo, ShinagawaTimes
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Crónica del pájaro que da cuerda al mundo
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
2010, Harvill Secker
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The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (The Complete Classics)
May 22, 2007, Naxos Audiobooks
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9626344180 9789626344187
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Biên niên ký chim vặn dây cót
2006, NXB Hội nhà văn, Công ty văn hóa & truyền thông Nhã Nam
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Cronica del Pajaro Que Da Cuerda Al Mundo
October 2005, TusQuets
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The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
2002?, Vintage International
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Crónica del pájaro que da cuerda al mundo.
Apr 14, 2001, Círculo de Lectores, 2001, Barcelona.
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Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
May 1999, Harvill Press
Paperback
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1860465811 9781860465819
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Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
1999 June 7, Random House Value Publishing
Hardcover
in English
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
1998 October, Vintage International
Epub
in English
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030776270X 9780307762702
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Mister Aufziehvogel.
September 1, 1998, DUMONT Literatur und Kunst Verlag
Hardcover
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3770144791 9783770144792
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
September 1, 1998, Vintage
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The wind-up bird chronicle: translated from the Japanese ; by Jay Rubin.
1998, The Harvill Press
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
1997, Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover
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"This translation originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1997"--T.p. verso.
"Works consulted," p. [608]
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